On Campus - Friday, November 21, 2008 3:32 - 8 Comments

NYU Local Overtakes Washington Square News in Unique Visitors

Over the past month, NYU Local received 14,000 unique visitors, nearly twice as many received by the Washington Square News, the school newspaper of 36 years. The number of hard copies WSN prints and stacks around campus every single weekday is now greater than the amount of unique visitors the site gets in a month. The stats, which come from top US analytics company Compete.com, show that either everyone at NYU has an anachronistic love for reading news on the printed page or that the majority of NYU’s 30,000 undergraduates ignore the paper and don’t read it online. This information has been publicly available for a few weeks, but Daniel Levinsohn’s comment about traffic reminded me that the news hasn’t spread. Continue…